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PostRe: Space! by **Knoyleo** » Thu Apr 20, 2023 2:56 pm

Why did everyone applaud when it exploded? Was this just a big fireworks display?

PostRe: Space! by **Moggy** » Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:07 pm

Knoyleo wrote:Why did everyone applaud when it exploded? Was this just a big fireworks display?

They are just jealous that the rocket had a blue tick.

PostRe: Space! by **Victor Mildew** » Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:07 pm

Knoyleo wrote:Why did everyone applaud when it exploded? Was this just a big fireworks display?

Americans clap sunsets.

PostRe: Space! by **Rex Kramer** » Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:13 pm

If he wants to just watch rockets explode then he could save himself a fortune and just buy Kerbal Space Program.

PostRe: Space! by **rinks** » Thu Apr 20, 2023 3:15 pm

Moggy wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:Why did everyone applaud when it exploded? Was this just a big fireworks display?

They are just jealous that the rocket had a blue tick.

Not the first.

BBC's Science Correspondent, Jonathan Amos wrote:Starship took off on time, it took a little while to get off the pad, it was very slow getting away.

It appeared as though when the rocket was climbing up through the sky that some of the engines on the base of the Super Heavy Booster weren't firing. I counted six, out of 33.

Engineers may have made the decision just to shut them down.

They went through Max-Q - the moment when the aerodynamic loads on the vehicle are at their greatest - they survived that, they continued on going.

But it was at that key moment when the bottom half of the rocket -- the Super Heavy Booster - is supposed to separate from the top half of the ship and go on by itself up into space.

They didn't separate, and then the vehicle went into a spin, started to go out of control, and at that point the computers probably triggered the flight termination system.

SpaceX will be thrilled with how far they got - they didn't destroy the launch pad, they got clear and they got tonnes of data.

I think for a first go, they will be amazed at what they achieved. They already have another rocket virtually ready to go, and that rocket has a huge range of improvements on what they learned building this one.

If their other rocket has a "huge range of improvements", they probably should have used that one.

Moggy wrote:If their other rocket has a "huge range of improvements", they probably should have used that one.

Would you choose your child who is the best swimmer to find out which pool is shark infested?

rinks wrote:
Moggy wrote:If their other rocket has a "huge range of improvements", they probably should have used that one.

Would you choose your child who is the best swimmer to find out which pool is shark infested?

Would you feed the slow kid to the shark and then chuck the fast kid in?

Moggy wrote:
rinks wrote:
Moggy wrote:If their other rocket has a "huge range of improvements", they probably should have used that one.

Would you choose your child who is the best swimmer to find out which pool is shark infested?

Would you feed the slow kid to the shark and then chuck the fast kid in?

I would throw them all in. I hate kids.

rinks wrote:
Moggy wrote:
rinks wrote:
Moggy wrote:If their other rocket has a "huge range of improvements", they probably should have used that one.

Would you choose your child who is the best swimmer to find out which pool is shark infested?

Would you feed the slow kid to the shark and then chuck the fast kid in?

I would throw them all in. I hate kids.

You sound like a grumpier version of Ad7.

Moggy wrote:
rinks wrote:
Moggy wrote:
rinks wrote:
Moggy wrote:If their other rocket has a "huge range of improvements", they probably should have used that one.

Would you choose your child who is the best swimmer to find out which pool is shark infested?

Would you feed the slow kid to the shark and then chuck the fast kid in?

I would throw them all in. I hate kids.

You sound like a grumpier version of Ad7.

Pretty cool though.

Watching kids get eaten by sharks is not cool.

Peter Crisp wrote:Watching kids get eaten by sharks is not cool.

They'd have to be profoundly unpleasant children.

PostRe: Space! by **Alvin Flummux** » Thu Apr 20, 2023 11:49 pm

Rex Kramer wrote:If he wants to just watch rockets explode then he could save himself a fortune and just buy Kerbal Space Program.

He's trying really hard to be Kerbal.

twitter.com/daniel_barker/status/1649153846063558657

The launchpad got absolutely cratered by yesterday's launch.

Guess Elon didn't think much of flame diverters before yesterday. Idiot.

Not too sure Musk is actually that directly involved in the decision making for SpaceX, to be honest.

Preezy wrote:Not too sure Musk is actually that directly involved in the decision making for SpaceX, to be honest.

You’d be surprised

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